Welding Technical Communication: Teaching and Learning Embodied Knowledge (Studies in Tech Communication) - Softcover

Mackiewicz, Jo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1438488521 ISBN 13: 9781438488523

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2022

Synopsis

Explores the teaching and learning of welding through two narratives: the personal narrative, relating the author's experience as a woman learning how to weld, and the academic narrative examining how instructional communication informs students' embodied knowledge and enculturation into a community of practice.

Welding Technical Communication explores the teaching and learning of welding through two narratives. The personal narrative relates the author's experience as a woman learning how to weld. The academic narrative draws upon scaffolded learning theory to examine how four welding teachers' verbal and nonverbal communication-their tutoring strategies and their gestures-facilitated students' embodied knowledge and enculturation into a community of practice. This book fills a gap in technical communication research: we do not fully understand how teachers' pedagogical technical communication scaffolds students' learning within the skilled trades. Novel in its approach and coverage, Welding Technical Communication will interest researchers in technical communication and technical education.

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About the Author

Jo Mackiewicz is Professor of Rhetoric and Professional Communication at Iowa State University.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1438488521
• ISBN 13: 9781438488523
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 244